Quite some time ago I had an idea to capture 24 hours of one of my favorite webcams in Rocky Mountain National Park. Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I experimented with some different ways of doing this. After a number of tests, this is the method that had the best results. This was done on a Mac using standard OS X software. 

 
If you cook, I'm sure you've got this problem: You find a recipe online that sounds great. So you print it, or read it off your iPhone. Once you've made the dish and want to make it again, you either have to find the print out, or search for it again. 
 
I've been thinking that it would be great to have a place online where I can easily store all of these recipes I find. That’s where Pinterest.com comes in. 
 

Last night, as we finished giving the baby her dinner, my iPhone dinged with a breaking news alert from the Associated Press: Steve Jobs had died.
 
I grabbed my iPad and pulled up Facebook and watched as my friends all shared the news. I was surprised how many people within my circle of friends posted qoutes, pictures and condolences to a man that most of them have never met.
 

Live in Denver? Have any trees on the street? If so, check out this blog that a friend of mine wrote that contains 10 useful tips on pruning trees and understanding the city's tree pruning ordinance:
 
http://www.arborscapeservices.com/10-denver-tree-pruning-ordinances-and-...

As most of you know, I'm currently raising funds for the Colorado Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society via it's BikeMS ride. It's a two-day ride that covers a total of 150 miles from Denver to Fort Collins and back and is coming up in about three weeks. 
 
My goal is to reach $3,000 and I'm about 80% there. In the final push, I decided to up the ante and will shave my legs if I beat last year's amount ($2,700). To add to the embarrassment, I'll post videos and pics of the ordeal. 
 

All of my sites are built using the Drupal Content Management System. It's a free, powerful, open source solution to building dynamic websites. Over the years, I've experimented with many different web hosts, but have come back to Fatcow.com mainly because it's cheap. Recently Fatcow has made some changes which allow one to install as many drupal sites as you wish to one hosting account. 
 

Quite some time ago, I acquired an old, rigid steel mountain bike that I planned to turn into a single speed. The bike sat in the storage closet for more than a year before I finally got around to buying the simple parts needed to run just one gear. 
 
The biggest reason I finally got around to it was that I hadn't ridden my road bike for more than two months and I needed something new to get me back on the bike. The single speed has certainly done the trick. 
 

All my sites are hosted at a webhost named Fatcow. I've been using them since the late 90s to host various projects, primarily because they are cheap. For less than $100 a year, I get mysql databses, unlimited domains, unlimited bandwidth, email addresses and a bunch of other stuff. 
 

I read about this iOS game called Trainyard the other day and didn't think much of it. But then I read another post about the game and how fun and addictive it was, so I decided to try it out. 

The premise is really simple, you've got to get trains from point A to point B. Along the way, you'll need to change the color of the train as well as change the number of trains that reach the station. 

You accomplish this by laying down track and changing the order of the "switches" so that the trains go where you want them to go. There's no time limit, which is good because it's all a matter of trial and error. 

It's September and my tomato plants are starting to wind down, which is a shame. I know in less than a month, they'll be completely done once the first frost hits them, and all I'll be left with is the withered stalks - and a whole bunch of seeds!
 
Harvesting tomato seeds is really quite easy, although it does take a little bit of work. The secret to harvesting the seeds is to put them through a fermentation process; Don't worry it's easier than it sounds.